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3. The Anti-State Prosecutions

Journalist Ahmet Şık found himself behind bars for writing a book that was not even published. So explosive was the subject of The Imam’s Army that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan likened it to a bomb. Şık was probing too far into one of the most influential and underreported forces in modern Turkish politics—the Gülen movement.

Turkey is awash in media. The newsstands of Istanbul are
buried under some 35 dailies of every format and political stripe. The airwaves
are thick with TV channels and Internet penetration is tracking an economy
growing at Chinese speed. Yet quantity does not equal quality. Nor does the
array of titles mean diversity and freedom of expression is blossoming in a
country that is seeking to join the European Union.